Martin McMahon

Dr Martin McMahon (BNSc, MSc, H.Dip, PGCE, PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Intellectual Disability Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin.

Martin's background is in nursing, and he is a registered nurse in the intellectual disability, children's and tutors’ division. He is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Martin has worked in a variety of nursing and specialist nursing posts in Ireland and abroad. General areas include paediatric nephrology; children with life-limiting conditions; community intellectual disability nursing; psychiatry of intellectual disability (where he was an independent and supplementary prescriber), practice education and regulation.

Martin has published articles in many journals in this area and his primary research area of interest is the health inequalities and inequities that people with intellectual disability experience when accessing healthcare.